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Fiber Pathways of the Brain

Jeremy D. Schmahmann and Deepak N. Pandya

Price: £54.00 (hardback)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-510423-3
Publication date: 27 April 2006
672 pages, 253 halftones & line illus.; 153 color illus., 8-1/2 x 11 mm

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Reviews

'This monograph serves as an excellent reference for investigators, educators, and clinicians interested in cortical connectivity and diseases affecting cerebral white matter. It is profusely illustrated with detailed, but clear, photographs, photomicrographs, illustrations, diagrams, and MRI and CT scan images. References and chapter notes are abundant.' - Journal of the Neurological Sciences
'This large, well-illustrated volume deals with one aspect of the fibre systems of the brain. The book reports the results of tracing efferent fibre connections from various areas of the cerebral cortex of 32 macaque monkeys. The book would useful for those wishing to have an anatomical basis for interpreting patterns of connectivity seen in scans, and some of the clinical symptoms that might be associated with interruption of fibre pathways.' - Brain
'...this book offers a splendid addition to our knowledge of brain anatomy. With exceptional scholarship that lays a solid foundation for the investigation of the role of white matter in brain-behaviour relationships, the authors have presented a tour de force of neuroanatomy that those interested in brain connectivity will find most valuable.' - The Lancet, Vol 6

Description

This unique volume is a comprehensive, well-illustrated study of the organisation of the white matter pathways of the brain. Schmahmann and Pandya have analysed and synthesised the corticocortical and cortisubcortical connections of the major areas of the cerebral cortex in the rhesus monkey. The result is a detailed understanding of the constituents of the cerebral white matter and the organisation of the fiber tracts. The findings from the 36 cases studied are presented on a single template brain, facilitating comparison of the locations of the different fiber pathways. The summary diagrams provide a comprehensive atlas of the cerebral white matter. The text is enriched by close attention to functional aspects of the anatomical observations. The clinical relevance of the pathways is addressed throughout the text and a chapter is devoted to human white matter diseases. The introductory account gives a detailed historical background. Translations of seminal original observations by early investigators are presented, and when these are considered in the light of the authors' new observations, many longstanding conflicts and debates are resolved.

Readership: Neurobiologists, anatomists, neurologists, neurosurgeons, neuroradiologists, psychiatrists, psychologists, and their students and trainees.

Contents

PREFACE , M. Mesulam

PART I: RELEVANCE OF THE CEREBRAL WHITE MATTER FIBER PATHWAYS

1. Introduction

2. White matter pathways in early neuroscience

PART II: APPROACH TO THE STUDY OF THE FIBER TRACTS

3. Materials analyzed

4. Architecture and nomenclature of rhesus monkey cerebral hemisphere

PART III: WHITE MATTER BUNDLES BY CORTICAL REGION OF ORIGIN

5. Principles of organization

6. Parietal lobe

7. Superior temporal region

8. Inferior temporal region

9. Occiptal lobe

10. Cingulate cortex

11. Motor cortex

12. Prefrontal cortex

PART IV: CONNECTIONAL TOPOGRAPHY, AND PUTATIVE FUNCTIONAL ROLES OF INDIVIDUAL FIBER BUNDLES

PART IVA: LONG ASSOCIATION FIBERS

13. Superior longitudinal fasciculus and accurate fasciculus

14. Extreme capsule

15. Middle longitude fasciculus

16. Uncinate fasciculus

17. Cingulum bundle

18. Inferior longitudinal fasiculus

19. Fronto-occipital fasciculus

PART IVB: STRIATAL FIBERS

20. Muratoff bundle (subcallosal fasciculus) and the external capsule

PARTIVC: COMMISURAL FIBERS

21. Anterior commissure

22. Corpus callosum

23. Forniceal commisures

PART IVD: PROJECTIONS FIBERS

24. Internal capsule

25. Sagittal stratum

26. Thalamic peduncles

PART V: COMPOSITE SUMMARY OF CEREBRAL WHITE MATTER FIBER PATHWAYS IN RHESUS MONKEY

27. Composite Summary Of Cerebral White Matter Fiber Pathways in Rhesus Monkey

PART VI: FUNCTIONAL CONSIDERATIONS

28. Clinical significance

29. Conclusions

30. Notes to the text

ABBREVIATIONS

REFERENCES

Authors, editors, and contributors

Jeremy D. Schmahmann, Associate Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School and
Deepak N. Pandya, Professor of Neurology and Anatomy, Boston University

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